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Over the past few years there have been many discoveries regarding treatment, maintenance and control of diabetes. There are numerous accounts of diabetes controlled by diet and controlled by certain types and amounts of exercise.

Unfortunately, it is often difficult for many people to stick to a diet, especially if they have to eliminate certain things from their diet that they really like. Keeping up the willpower to avoid certain foods is too much for many people.

As for exercise, people say that they don’t have more than a very few minutes a day to spare, so they do not have time for a good workout. There is more information about exercise and diabetes that has recently
come out. It is somewhat different with a new way of thinking.

Regular aerobic exercise helps prevent diabetes. But if you don’t have time for several lengthy workout sessions each week, researchers have come up with a quick approach to diabetes prevention. They have shown that 7 1/2 minutes per week of high-intensity exercise substantially improved insulin sensitivity in healthy, sedentary people.

The study involved 16 young men who participated in two weeks of high-intensity interval training. The training consisted of four to six 30-second sprints on an exercise bike. The men rested four minutes between each sprint. The total time commitment of each workout session ranged from 17 to 26 minutes, and they burned only 250 calories a week from the workouts.

The study participants were given an oral glucose test, which measures how the body responds to sugar, before and after the two-week training period. In the later test, the amount of time the men’s blood sugar and blood insulin levels were above normal was reduced by 12 percent and 37 percent, respectively.

The authors of the study, from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, say they think the brief workout program works so well on insulin because it involves large muscle groups. Skeletal muscle is the major tissue responsible for the uptake of glucose following a meal. The kind of muscle contractions and breakdown of muscle fibers that occurs in high-intensity interval training seem to result in changes in muscle insulin sensitivity.

So even if you have only a small amount of time to devote to some intense exercise it can help control diabetes blood sugar and blood insuin and reduce blood sugar by 12% and blood insulin by 37%, not to mention the 250 calories burned by investing a few minutes per week. This should be easy to do in an effort to stay healthy and keep your symptoms under control.